The Cult of Cthulhu is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Cthulhu with an iron fist, and renowned for its frequent executions, compulsory military service, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 13.844 billion Cthulhuans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of R'lyeh. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Cthulhuan economy, worth a remarkable 2,334 trillion dolors a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 168,662 dolors, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,151,378 per year while the poor average 8,950, a ratio of 128 to 1.

The government loves seeing the little people fight, romantic sunsets are no longer interrupted by explosions and monstrous roars, the media seems excessively interested in what Cthulhu is wearing this season, and the military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms. Crime is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cthulhu's national animal is the octopus, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Esoteric Order Of Cthulhu.

Cthulhu is ranked 81,519^th in the world and 2^nd in Cthulhu for Most Cultured, scoring 67 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.